1247143 - <a rel=alternate> doesn't show up in Menu -> Bookmarks -> Subscribe to this page ...

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 362864

(Firefox Graveyard :: RSS Discovery and Preview, defect)

Description

[Jeena Paradies]

Attachment: Example html using <a rel="alternate">

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.11; rv:44.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/44.0
Build ID: 20160123151951

Steps to reproduce:

I went to https://kartikprabhu.com/ which has a <a rel="alternate feed" type="application/atom+xml" href="/atom" title="Atom feed for Homepage">Homepage</a> in its HTML.


Actual results:

I opened the Menu -> Bookmarks and the "Subscribe to this page ..." was grayed out so I wasn't able to subscribe to this feed.


Expected results:

It should have let me subscribe to this feed like if instead the website has used <link> instead of <a>, which is described as an alternative way to do it here: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/RSS/Getting_Started/Syndicating#Adding_the_.3Ca.3E

Comment 1

[YF (Yang)]

I did not find any version of Firefox support the form.

Comment 2

[Jeena Paradies]

in my opinion the documentation is right and it is a bug in Firefox, because there are obviously websites out there using it in that way.

Comment 3

[YF (Yang)]

However, any browser explicitly support it?

Comment 4

[Jean-Yves Perrier [:teoli]]

I think the docs (browser-independent) is right, but Firefox doesn't act on it. Moving it back to Firefox and it product management will decide to implement this feature or WONTFIX it.

Comment 5

[Eric Shepherd [:sheppy]]

I've added a note to the doc indicating this doesn't work in Firefox. See https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/RSS/Getting_Started/Syndicating#Adding_the_.3Ca.3E for that.

Comment 7

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

I'm not sure there is anything, other than maybe someone's extension for some browser or someone's autodiscovery script, which does support <a rel> autodiscovery. Safari doesn't, Chrome doesn't seem to have built-in support for autodiscovery anymore, Edge doesn't seem to either.